All 12 passengers aboard a bus -- on its way to Pune from Indore – were killed when the vehicle fell in the Narmada river while crossing the Khalghat Sanjay Setu in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Monday.
The accident took place on Monday morning in Dhamnod – a town close to the Dhar-Khargone border and nearly 290 kilometres from the Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal -- when the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus was crossing the bridge.
According to Kumar Purushottam, the Khargone collector who reached the spot after the accident, the driver of the bus lost control and the vehicle broke the concrete railing at the centre of the bridge, and first landed at the base of the concrete pillar, causing an impact, before it plunged into the river that was nearly 40 feet below the bridge.
